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Just two weeks before, the blind right eye had been removed. Immediately, a near-blinding light sensitivity vanished. For years the left eye, the one with vision, had been protected by dark, almost black, sunglasses, with limited success. Within days of removing the blind eye, the sensitivity diminished. We’d observed a similar phenomenon when trying to place a patch over a cross-dominant eye. The un-patched eye’s pupil would dilate and get larger in sympathy with its patched partner. Naturally this would create light sensitivity in the uncovered eye.

Same-side dominance may simply be one of the only eye anomalies that are useful to instinctive shooters. SAME-SIDE DOMINANCES. When they point at a distant object with a firearm that falls within their parameters of fit, the barrels go to that object without fail every single time. 2. CROSS-DOMINANCE Cross-dominance is quite common. My own brothers and father were plagued with it. Their solution was, as right-handed individuals, to shoot left-handed. This is an easy fix if the individual in question is cross-dominant all the time.

His ophthalmologist should have made that connection early in Mick’s life. Though right-handed, Mick had always shot left-handed. He had always been a gun aimer—he sighted along the barrel and pulled the trigger. Occasionally, he would hit a bird, but not with any kind of frequency. After we’d worked on the fundamentals of instinctive shooting, we repaired to a target field where I’d set up for left to right crossers, the easier targets for southpaws. I replaced Mick’s dark glasses with his clear lenses and I added yellow clip-ons to keep’s Mick’s remaining pupil small and to absorb ultraviolet.